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A major organ of the endocrine system, the anterior pituitary (also called the adenohypophysis or pars anterior), is the glandular, anterior lobe that together with the posterior lobe (posterior pituitary, or the neurohypophysis) makes up the pituitary gland (hypophysis).ypothalamic Control. Hormone secretion from the anterior pituitary gland is regulated by releasing hormones secreted by the hypothalamus. Neuroendocrine cells in the hypothalamus project axons to the median eminence, at the base of the brain.
1 The anterior pituitary or adenohypophysis is a classical gland composed predominantly of cells that secrete protein hormones. 2  The posterior pituitary or neurohypophysis is not a separate organ, but an extension of the hypothalamus.hese hypothalamic hormones reach the anterior pituitary through the following route: 1  A branch of the hypophyseal artery ramifies into a capillary bed in the lower hypothalamus, and hypothalmic hormones destined for the anterior pituitary are secreted into that capillary blood.